More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...

The pioneering lunar lander made a significant leap for commercial lunar exploration on Sunday, becoming the first private spacecraft to touch down on the Moon without crashing or falling over.

Once it arrived, the lander took plenty of pictures of our nearest celestial neighbor. From here, Blue Ghost will spend the next two weeks in lunar orbit, awaiting its chance to land and start ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has been orbiting the moon since mid-February and now is in the final stages of its journey to the Mare Crisium, a large basin on near-side of the moon.

A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other equipment for NASA touches down on the Moon, cheered on by staff watching in Texas. It's the latest in a string of companies looking to ...

A private company launched another lunar lander Wednesday (February 26, 2025), aiming to get closer to the moon’s south pole this time with a drone that will hop into a jet-black crater that ...

The spacecraft will separate from the rocket after reaching what’s called a trans-lunar injection orbit, which is an elliptical path that extends about 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers ...

The hopper, named Grace after software pioneer Grace Hopper, and the Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform rover built by a company called Lunar Outpost, will communicate with the Athena lander ...

Intuitive Machines, the Texas company that returned America to the Moon last year, aims to make a repeat appearance, this time delivering the first cell service to the lunar surface in addition to ...